Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau: "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."

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Books	Business	Carriers	Civilization
Crime	Crippled	Dumb	Even
History	Incessant	Itself	Life
Literature	Nothing	Opposed	Philosophy
Poetry	Science	Silent	Speculation
Standstill	Think	Thought	Without

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